On Combinatorial Optimization and Mechanism Design Problems Arising at Container Ports

• Main Author: Meiswinkel, Sebastian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Produktion und Logistik
• Subjects: Economic theory.; Business logistics.; Game theory.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Logistics.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

Sebastian Meiswinkel studies optimization problems that arise at container ports from a classic optimization as well as from a mechanism design point of view. The first part of this dissertation is focused on scheduling problems with selfish job owners that have private information about their chara...

Table of Contents:

• Truthful Algorithms for Job Agents
• The Partitioning Min-Max Weighted Matching Problem
• Straddle Carrier Routing at Container Ports with Quay Crane Buffers.